Funny, but how many times does #Enshittification have to happen before people are just done with venture capital bullshit? #TikTok Stopped Paying Creators, Now They're QUITTING https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSQQWb85XJA
tiktok
Not bad for a 3 days old account! Take that #TikTok! 
https://vido.social/invite/a_019c0565-43b2-7142-a249-c4193ce9565dFNNtC5E
‘#OpenSource And #Ethical’ #TikTok, #WhatsApp And #Instagram Alternatives Could Transform #SocialMedia
from #Forbes
By Esat Dedezade, Contributor.
Esat Dedezade is U.K.-based journalist who covers Big Tech for Forbes
Jan 25, 2025, 12:23pm EST
[a very well-written article with a favorable yet realistic angle on the #Fediverse]
"At the heart of these alternative apps lies the Fediverse platform — a portmanteau of "federated" and "universe" that represents a radical reimagining of how social media can work. Unlike traditional platforms where users are locked into isolated ecosystems, the Fediverse operates as an interconnected network of independent servers that communicate with each other through a standard protocol called #ActivityPub."
#Pixelfed #PeerTube #Mastodon #Loops #Sup #FreeSoftware #SocialWeb #technology #news #press
Edited 21d ago
Conceito de rede social?
É impressão minha, ou, desde o TikTok, o parâmetro de “rede social” está abrangente para um caralho?
Estudantes meus de ensino fundamental consideram Youtube como rede social. Agora há pouco um camarada da faculdade falou que “Ficou muito interessado pela rede social alternativa Substack (!)“.
Parece que o simples fato de haver recursos de comunicação basta para considerar plataformas de entretenimento como redes sociais. Se isso de fato aproxima ou não as pessoas, estreita relações ou cria comunidades, foda-se, né? É lateral.
O que vocês pensam sobre isso? O conceito de rede social mudou ou mudaram os usuários? #Youtube, #TikTok e #Substack podem ser consideradas como #socialmedia?
Edited 20d ago
Happy Friday!
Here is an early look at the Loops web UI that will be launching later this weekend.
Yeah, you won't need an app to use Loops anymore ✨
A popular TikTok channel featuring an "Aboriginal man" presenting animal facts has been exposed as an AI forgery.
AI is Iggy Azalea on an industrial scale:
"The self-described “Bush Legend” on TikTok, Facebook and Instagram is growing in popularity.
"These short and sharp videos feature an Aboriginal man – sometimes painted up in ochre, other times in an all khaki outfit – as he introduces different native animals and facts about them.
...
"But the Bush Legend isn’t real. He is generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
"This is a part of a growing influx of AI being utilised to represent Indigenous peoples, knowledges and cultures with no community accountability or relationships with Indigenous peoples. It forms a new type of cultural appropriation, one that Indigenous peoples are increasingly concerned about."
...
"We are seeing the rise of an AI Blakface that is utilised with ease thanks to the availability and prevalence of AI.
"Non-Indigenous people and entities are able to create Indigenous personas through AI, often grounded in stereotypical representations that both amalgamate and appropriate cultures."
https://theconversation.com/this-tiktok-star-sharing-australian-animal-stories-doesnt-exist-its-ai-blakface-273004
#ChatGPT #gemini #AI #TikTok #tiktoksucks #Claude #LLM #ArtificialIntelligence #AIslop
Geen #Facebook, geen #Instagram, geen #Threads, geen #Twitter/X, geen #Bluesky, geen #Tumblr, geen #TikTok, geen #Snapchat, geen #Pinterest, geen #Redit en alleen #Linkedin en #Mastodon.
En zonder #Google kom je met een Android telefoon niet ver dus helaas die nog even aanhouden.
Helaas nog wel #WhatsApp en daar vanaf gaan is erg lastig. Is mijn ervaring een aantal jaar geleden. Kom maar naar #Signal, zeg ik vaak.
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I've curated a solid collection of silly content in the new Surf app beta, creating a feed called "Laughable". With YouTube RSS feeds, I basically recreated my TikTok doomscrolling without ads or tracking.
Interested in joining the beta? Follow the link, then use the code SURFSHARES in the signup form for priority access.
https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jh46t8f1z1fdnxvtg4yc2z6k
Hi guys!
I’m new to mastodon and the fediverse. I’m still trying to figure things out but so far this seems pretty cool!
Here is a list of my interests:
#kpop
#kdrama
#anime
#manga
#genshinimpact
#books
#nonfiction
I am also a part of the #lgbtq community and came here because of #tiktok
I hope to find lots of friends so if you follow me i’ll follow you back!
🏁 #TikTok no longer accessible on 🇺🇸 American phones.🎉 🎈
#Why? BECAUSE #ELON_MUSK and the 🇺🇸 #USA GOVERNMENT ARE THE ONLY ONES ALLOWED TO #VIOLATE #USA_CITIZENS PERSONAL #PRIVACY and #PROTECTION OF #PERSONS #RIGHTS by #DUMB-PHONE_TRIANGULATION of #T_MOBILE and AT&T cell phone #TOWERS
... CHINA NOT ALLOWED!? 🚔
You see it would appear that "What is Good for the Goose IS NEVER GOOD for the Gander?"
and we wonder why we have a #GENDER_IDENTITY PROBLEM?? UGH!
DRINK SOME MORE OIL >> THAT MAY HELP? 🛢️
🔥 #ELON_MUSK IS A #THREAT TO 🇺🇸 #NATIONAL_SECURITY.
The #Supreme_Court upheld the law #banning the app in a 9-0 opinion.
DAVIDV SAYS .. BIG KUDOS 🏆 TO THE SUPREME COURT! you saw it clearly this time ..I hope..?? You are just confusing yourselves.. stop ready between the lines. The Constitution is literal.
ALERT! #HOUSTON WE GOT #BIGGER_PROBLEMS!!??
#NASA AND #ELON_MUSK (remember ELON MUSK DADDY MADE >> EMERALD MINE IN AFRICA) NEEDS (aka GREED) to rob the #indigenous_natives of their lands.. aka VALUABLE #LITHIUM.... USED TO BUILD CHEAP SATELLITES AND CAR BATTERIES..
THEY ARE SITTING ON THE MOTHER LOAD!?? ..frothing at the mouth like the dirty dogs they are for an opportunity to #RAPE AND #PILLAGE THAT LAND?
To Build More #Satellites to track and trace YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.. bc THEY ARE ALL COWARDS.
Why are they all cowards..bc THEY ALL JUST GOT CAUGHT WITH MURDEROUS FINGERS IN THE PIE ;) by TastingTraffic LLC.
Yes the African Slave trader ELON MUSK following DADDY EMERALD MINE footsteps of perversion, murder, rape, pillaging and #APARTHEID.
He needs an Emerald Mine just like #DADDY_INCEST!?
#ELON_MUSK IS #NOT A 🧠 GENIUS! HE IS #IN-FACT A #THREAT TO OUR 🇺🇸 #NATIONAL_SECURITY!
Remove from our Government ASAP without prejudice!
#VIDEO 1: 🏁 #TikTok no longer accessible on 🇺🇸 American phones.🎉 🎈
#VIDEO 2: #Lithium mine pits electric cars against sacred #Indigenous land
https://youtu.be/sv9iHH7g6xk?si=rIQybRzq4ifDrdp2si=CZvI5D0bEwSIBHuu
#VIDEO 3: THE #CASE #AGAINST #NASA (MINDSHOCK PODCAST CLIPS)
Taking a look at the case against #NASA. Would more good be done by #defunding the #space_agency?
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The NEW DIGITAL GLOBAL ORDER | NO NATIONALITY LEFT BEHIND | COMING SOON! 🌏 🌍 🌎
🔴 The #Next #Global_Superpower Isn't Who You #Think 🧠 WHO is TastingTraffic.com?
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Consider this: The #EU has just won 2 court cases against big tech. Yet these do not get continuous MSM attention. The USA banning #TikTok is wall-to-wall even here in Europe. We need to celebrate our wins more, not obsess about USA (frankly) incompetence.
"**the European Court of Justice gave the Union's regulators two major victories in their ongoing battles with tech giants, judging that #Apple and #Google must pay over €15 billion in total"**
This week's net.wars, "Banning TikTok" watches two US presidents go from "Oh my God! The kids are using *TikTok*!" to "Oh, my God! The kids are *using* TikTok!": https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/01/17/banning-tiktok/ #NetWars #SocialMedia #TikTok #FreeSpeech
This? This is what gets people to act?
Fair wages? Voting rights? A woman’s bodily autonomy? Marriage equality? Healthcare? Saving democracy?
Nope.
Just a foreign adversary’s spyware filled with interpretive dance about an ayahuasca trip followed by political disinfo
We’re not gonna make it
"Cute winter boots" is one of the code phrases being used on TikTok to alert people to ICE (U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement) sightings following last week's announcement on the start of mass deportations.
@AxiosNews has the details:
https://flip.it/JDIWvF
Did you just join us?
Welcome to Vivaldi Social, Mastodon and the Fediverse.
If you are coming from a place like X, Facebook or TikTok, this place is different. The good thing is that you only see things in your feed from people you follow. The content is shown reverse chronological.
This means that you will likely see a lot less misinformation, hate speech and AI crap.
But if you do not follow anyone, your feed will feel empty. So go ahead and find people and organizations that you like and follow them. Make things interesting. There is a lot of interesting people out there.
The search is great for finding content and who to follow. Hashtags are useful when searching as well.
#fediverse #Vivaldi #X #Twitter #Facebook #TikTok #SocialMedia
📣 Happy #GlobalSwitchDay to all the brave frontrunners out there!
For whom February 1st came a little too soon, don't worry! Just try again on March 1st and celebrate Zero Discrimination Day in the beautiful #fediverse. Alternatively, you can switch on April 1st, as only fools stay behind ;) or join your friends on May 1st and put your ideals to work.
Help spread the word.
#WhatsApp #Signal #Reddit #Lemmy #X #Mastodon #Instagram #Pixelfed #Facebook #friendica #Youtube #Peertube #Tiktok #loops
TikTok's transition to U.S. ownership involves collecting even more data about its users, including precise location and AI interactions. It's also likely that the new privacy policy will lead to you seeing more targeted ads. Here's the lowdown from @WIRED.
New for The Barbed Wire's Big & Bright 🌈⭐👏: Meet Waco's #transgender BBQ pitmaster, who's going viral for his outspoken, #antifascist TikTok videos.
Kaleb told us he lost his job at Terry Black's after being doxed after Charlie Kirk's death, but that hasn't stopped his big smoked meat dreams ... https://thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/21/barbecue-saved-his-life-waco-antifascist-trans-pitmaster/
#LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #news #culture #Texas #food #politics #USpol #antifa #SocialMedia #TikTok
When exposing a #crime is considered a crime, we are being ruled by criminals!
BELOW:
Murdered by ICE thugs. This is what #StateTerrorism looks like. They tell US to stay calm. We’re not the one’s being violent here!!
#KeithPorter
#ReneeNicoleGood
#AlexPretti
#SilverioVillegasGonzales
#healthcare #resistance #protest #minnesota #fuckICE #immigration #texas #uspoli #democracy #humanrights @democracy @politics #socialmedia #tiktok #twitter #mastodon #fediverse #freedom #USA #Trump #Fascism #law
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I’m watching this mass #TikTok uninstallation with great interest, partially because I’m looking forward to seeing what venture backed app people will flock to next. To be fair, I used to do the very same thing and never really looked into how horrible anything venture backed anything. was until I actually looked into better alternatives based off a crumb that was left on the mainstream platform I happen to use at the time so I don’t know what the correct solution is, but it is fascinating to watch happen over and over again. I wanted better. I just didn’t know where to go or what to try. I did try looking up alternatives, but absolutely none of the alternatives mentioned were anything close to things like the IndieWeb or Mastodon, etc. there are millions of others that are perfectly fine, not happy, but an accepted fine, with the abuse that mainstream tech does to it’s users. As much as I hate mainstream places, there needs to be breadcrumbs left for those that are like me and are looking for something more but don’t know where to look or what to look for until they find it. #Tech #Technology
"Walmart is actively considering joining a group of investors to buy #TikTok, according to sources close to the deal, who say Walmart's interest was triggered by Amazon throwing their hat into the ring."
https://thereport.be/article/?app=breaking&u=https%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.go.com%2FPolitics%2Fwalmart-buying-tiktok-sources%2Fstory%3Fcid%3Dsocial_twitter_abcn%26id%3D120494441
CNN: " #Trump announced on Friday that he will again delay enforcement of the TikTok sale-or-ban law for 75 days, as his staff continues to work on a deal to preserve access to the app in the United States." https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/04/tech/tiktok-deal-ban-extended-trump?cid=ios_app
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President Trump said he would sign another executive order to delay enforcement of a law that effectively bans TikTok as a deal to sell the widely popular platform remains a work in progress. Read more at @CBSNews. #TikTok #SocialMedia #Trump #ByteDance #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/KZpCw6
🥊 #FEDS NEED TO KEEP ITS #KNEE 🧎 🧎♂️ 🧎♀️ ON #INFLATION'S_NECK??" MY EASTER LILY BLOOMED AGAIN FOR GEORGE FLOYD. REMEMBER HIM? WE DO.
✝️ Who would have known what #George_Floyds death would actually #SPARK!?;)
✝️ A DAY AFTER #GEORGE_FLOYDS #Death my #Easter_Lilly #Bloomed in Remembrance of his death.
✝️ I Post on #LinkedIn and Fediverse 5 times after very first Bloom.
#Proof that short term Memory has been disintegrated from the #food you eat, #air you breath and #people you know!
Thanks to the 🇮🇱 👹 🔥 #ISRAELI _TERRORISTS NOW RUNING OUR ONCE GREAT COUNTRY! 🇱🇷
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd
In #Memory of #George_Floyd ✝️ (October 14, 1973 – May 25, 2020) was an African American man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis,
The 🇮🇱 Devil is in the 🇱🇷 Details.. WHAT DOES THAT #MEAN?? 🐍
AND WHAT IS #FINANCIAL #Hannibal_Directive??
Lets ask the recently deceased #knee_on_neck Murder Victim BY OUR OWN POLICE DEPT 🚔 for $20 alleged FAKE BUCKS shall we? 💵
WHO PAYS #TAXES in THIS COUNTRY? ANSWER? #ELITES AND #BIGTECH #WALMART, #AMAZON PAYING #ZERO IN #TAXES
FEDS NEED TO KEEP ITS FOOT ON INFLATION'S NECK bc if this Government cannot get you to pay your taxes, if any, they will #inflate the #economy by 30% in order to #TAKE TAXES FROM YOU WHEN YOU BUY #FOOD, PAY #RENT, #mortgage, BUY A #CAR ETC. ETC ETC.
That's right every time you buy food you are paying a 30-40% #markup.
That's #FORCED #INCOME_TAX Folks OF another name CALLED #INFLATION!
All Americans are PAYING AT LEAST 30% IN INCOME TAX AND THEY DONT KNOW IT?
(AKA TRUTH) Remember LAZY ASS #LOSER_CHUMP wanted to apply a 30% take on #TikTok #ACQUISITION.
#TRUMP THE #LAZY_LOSER TRYING TO #ROB THE #STAGE_COACH on its way into town >> AND WE ALL KNOW HOW THAT #ENDS??
This country will not see one penny more than there fair share of taxes. NOT #ONE_PENNY MORE!
It's in the FEDS BEST INTEREST to #PRINT MORE #MONEY to #INCREASE INFLATION NOT LOWER IT! or else the #Value of the USD dollar #WILL_COLLAPSE and GREEDY INEPT #OIL_Tycoons #DIRT_BAGS (AKA #ZIONIST_NAZI'S) benefit when the dollar COLLAPSES..
The feds need to keep raising inflation by printing money and then buffer the impact by 25 to 100 basis points FOREVER..
. in order to COLLECT the income taxes REQUIRED to run this country.
#Kicking the #can FURTHER down the #road is the only way the USA Government can now COLLECT TAXES from its Citizens.
AND That my friends is a SURE SIGN OF A #FAILED_REGIME.
Unless you are a w-2 employee (AKA GOVERNMENT OR FORTUNE 500 #SLAVE!) -- but most are now #self_employed. All of WE THE PEOPLES MONEY HAS BEEN #ROBBED, #SPENT, #PILLAGED while this Israeli regime murder's its own citizens.. gone!
aka #FINANCIAL #Hannibal_Directive.
AND THAT IS WHAT IT MEANS WHEN the "FEDS SAYS." IT #NEEDS TO KEEP ITS #FOOT ON #INFLATION'S_NECK??
Who would have known what #George_Floyds death would actually #SPARK!?;)
A DAY AFTER #GEORGE_FLOYDS #Death my #Easter_Lilly #Bloomed in Remembrance of his death.
I Post on #LinkedIn and Fediverse 5 times after very first Bloom.
#Proof that short term Memory has been disintegrated from the #food you eat, #air you breath and #people you know!
Thanks to the 🇮🇱 👹 🔥 #ISRAELI _TERRORISTS NOW RUNING OUR ONCE GREAT COUNTRY! 🇱🇷
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“ #Trump set to grant another extension to avoid #TikTok disruption
The social media platform is technically prohibited under U.S. law unless it can find an American buyer.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-extension-tiktok-rcna213625